334. Jiu-jitsu shrine maiden




 While I was confused, the skeleton didn't wait for me.
 They are agile enough to attack further with their movements.

 It's inevitable, first I'll have to defeat this guy and then slowly--that's when I thought.

 I'm not going to be able to get it right.
 I'm not going to be able to get to the top of the list, but I'm going to be able to get to the bottom of the skeletons that are coming at me.
 I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get it right, but I'm going to be able to get it right.

 Boom--Mekimek!

 The first sound was the sound of the joint breaking as it was fixed when I threw it.
 What immediately followed was the sound of the bone cracking as he immediately put his weight on the ribs after the throw and applied his body weight to the ribs.

 Judo - or is it closer to Jiu-Jitsu because he's throwing while doing arthroscopic techniques?

 Jiu-Jitsu miko, dressed like a period piece and not so much.
 Sarfa Queen Sakuya.

'Is that your style?'
Yes, sir.
'There wasn't any hesitation or anything, I knew I'd get used to it quickly because I'm the Sulphur Queen, but still, 'I'm with the Sulphur! And I thought for a moment I was confused.
'What? Same as Sulphur?
What?

 The reaction surprised me.
 You mean ......, which I hadn't even noticed?

'No, so it's similar to Sulphur, in that when you go in here, your level reverts to one.

 Technically, the abilities that were raised by the seed also return to their initial values, but I didn't say that because it was just me.

''That's right. The bad one I showed you earlier, there was an ability, right?
Yeah, the one with all the E's and F's in a row.

 Sakuya nodded.

'Actually, that's the same as it was at level 1.
'What? ...... means you're up to 66, and you've leveled up 65 times and haven't improved a single ability.
Yes, sir.
......

 I was speechless.
 I remembered an incident that happened in a game a long time ago.

 Starting at about level 20, there is a magic that you have a 50% chance of dwelling on when you level up.
 I didn't learn it until I got to the level where I completed the game - maybe 50 or so, and I didn't learn it until I got that high.
 I remembered that I didn't learn it until the very end.

 It was 50% hit and miss, and I kept pulling that miss, 30 times.

 The odds are - 0s lined up in front of 10.
 Even if you do a quick calculation, the odds are even lower than the 09 system of general-purpose humanoid decisive weapons.

 In the same way, Sakuya has been pulling a pattern that doesn't improve his ability 65 times in a row.

 I gritted my teeth.
 It's just bad luck, and frankly, it's no one's fault.
 It's just Sakuya's own bad luck.

 Still, I was frustrated to the point of gnashing my teeth.

'What's wrong with that ......?'
...... No, it's nothing. It's more than that.

 If I keep worrying about that one, I'm going to get pissed off with nowhere to go, so I deflected the conversation.

'That wasn't the skeleton you saw in Nifonium, was it?
'Yes. It was more like walking around like this, ooohing and ahhh ...... and moaning.
That's the normal, conventional nihonium.
Is it different here?

 Sakuya scurries around.

'Yeah. ...... I don't know why, but it looks like I'm the only one who got in.
I'm in it now.
'I can bring him to you using the mansion's transporter room. I can take him to the spirit room if I want to.
The genie's room: ......?
You know what a genie is, right? This is the room where you can see that spirit.
......

 Sakuya paused.

'What's the matter?'
Ah! I'm sorry! It's amazing that you can do that.
Okay.

 The transporter room has become a normal part of my friends' lives and part of my daily routine, so Sakuya's reaction was new to me.
 Well, that's beside the point.

'By the way, when was the last time you went to Nihonium?
Just before I came in.
Okay.

 So that means I'm the only one who can enter this place I call the back, after all.

 I'll confirm that with Nihonium later, but if I've made it this far, I'll be able to defeat the mini-skeleton in the field and get some seeds, just one of them first.

 I thought I'd lower Sakuya's level for one, to show him that there was hope and a possible future.
 On the other hand, there was the fact that the skeleton Sakuya had defeated didn't drop.

'I'll take it from here,'
I understand.

 I took the honest Sakuya around the first floor of the back Nihonium with him.
 I beat the skeleton as soon as I met it.

 It doesn't go as smoothly as Sakuya's, but I've already done it three times myself.
 Even though my abilities were low, I used that kind of technique to defeat the agile skeletons.

......

 Suddenly, I noticed Sakuya staring at me.

What's going on?
'...... ha! I'm sorry!
No, I'm not angry or anything. What's going on, staring at me like that?
Lyota, you're back on the ...... level too.
Hmmm, yeah.

 Technically, I'm in a state where I'm only down on my abilities, but if I say that, I'll have to explain the original Nifonium, or if you want, the drop S.
 Sakuya knows Sarfa, and I decided to match the story with the flow of it.

'So what about it,'
Even though he was low on ability, he was able to take it down in many different ways.
Well, usually you're more stable.
That was ...... really cool.

 I noticed that Sakuya's eyes were feverish.